Brahma-saṁhitā says beginning from this Indra up to that Indra . . . that beginning from that bacteria up to the king of heaven, yas tv indra-gopam athavendram aho sva-karma (Bs. 5.54), everyone is enjoying or suffering according to his own activities.
Gopam aho sva-karma-bandhānurūpa-phala-bhājanam ātanoti. Bandha, the same thing, nibandhanam. According to the knot of fruitive result, everyone is enjoying or suffering. Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām: but one who is engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service, his karma-nibandhana is cut off. Karmāṇi chindanti.
So this is the benefit of being Kṛṣṇa conscious, that whatever we are acting in our past life, and according to that we have got this body . . . either impious or pious, whatever you have done, that's all right. Don't think that because we are doing some pious activities we shall be out of the bondage of fruitive activity.
No. That is also not possible. I have several times explained that if we do pious activity, then the result will be that we shall be able to get our birth in a very nice family, aristocratic family, rich family, pious family, big family. These are the result. Janma.
Or janma aiśvarya. Janma means a very rich man, born in a rich family or high family, that means automatically he becomes a rich man Janmaiśvarya-śruta (SB 1.8.26). Or somebody becomes very highly or great learned man, śruta. And śrī; śrī means beauty: or one becomes very beautiful. So these things are obtained by righteous activities. And similarly, by acting impious activities we become very ugly, we become fool, we are born in a very low family or animal family and we become very poor. These are the results of different activities.
Now why . . . one may say: "If I get next life in a very rich family and becomes very rich man and becomes very learned man, very beautiful man, why shall I not take this opportunity?" But intelligent man says that, "Even if I get such opportunities, the material miseries are there." It is not that because a child is born of a very rich family, he hasn't got to go into the womb of his mother and suffer the consequence. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9). The distress of birth, death, disease and old age equally there, either you become born in a very high family or either you born in a very low family, either you're born in India or you are born in America.